Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Skydiving

Here are some photos of my wife skydiving.

Out of the Plane!
Jumping out of the airplane

Start of freefall
Start of freefall

Freefall
"Now I'm freeeee, freefallin'"

We Made It!
We made it!

posted by Me @ 2:12 PM   3 comments

3 Comments:

At 7:21 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awesome pics! I would like to do this some day, but I'm not keen on the fact that I have to pay by the pound because I'm a "plus sized" gentleman.

 
At 12:48 PM, Blogger Nymph said...

Niallita -
No real comment on the skydiving thing - sounds like fun. Not as much fun as getting on a big cutthroat - but fun.
This comes from Yalestar and I thought you and your readers would enjoy:

Superior Sector Janitor X
Our baby has had a fever for many days, and spends most of her time screaming and throwing food at us and not sleeping. So I'm kinda operating at an unusual level of stuporousness lately. And no matter how much coffee or other adjuvants I ingest, I just can't seem to be my normal effusive self.

But there's one thing I can get real chipper about: GOP boners aplenty! I knew after the '04 elections that the righties were gonna overextend themselves and fuck things up. It's like giving a bottle of Dom Perignon to a Spokane hooker; you know she's not likely to make very good use of it, and there's bound to be a real smelly, chunky mess afterward.

Nevertheless, I feel no shame in permitting myself a heapin' helpin' of schadenfreude watching Tom DeLay and Bill Bennett (and GW Bush, and Bill Frist, Karl Rove, et. al) as they're exposed for the sleazy fuckballs we all knew they were. Really, what did Tom DeLay ever have to offer the Congress and his state, other than the image of being a tough character who didn't pull his punches? Well, I guess he just about succeeded in gerrymandering Texas, but other And Bill Bennett, how could any thinking person not see him as anything other than a sad, turgid loser who probably wouldn't think twice about jerking off in your bathroom if you had him over for dinner?

So will Americans ever get the hint? Will the slowpokes out there ever finally see right-wingitude for the empty, fraudulent philosophy that it is? Wow, that's a lot of questions?

My fondest wish is to see Bush and his retarded ideology and its scary-ass adherents and their complete disregard for subtlety finally expose the GOP as the fraud that it is. If there's a bright side to the Bush administration, this might just be it. Lately the letters to the editor have been almost entirely anti-Bush, and there has been a marked uptick in the number of them, too. I used to like to entertain myself with a little game where I'd look at a letter-writer's home town and then try to predict what the letter would say. See, Denver's pretty segregated, and not just by race. It used to be that you'd see a letter from Highlands Ranch, Centennial, Parker, Colorado Springs, Westminster, Lakewood, or Arvada, and you could pretty much count on it being a screed on one of the following topics: pro-gun, pro-Bush, pro-war, anti-immigrant, anti-tax, anti-regulation. A letter from Denver proper, or from Boulder or some of the outlying mountain towns are usually just the opposite. Lately though, I've been seeing a lot of eloquent and vehement letters from people in those traditionally right-wing strongholds, a strong indication that people are finally starting to see through the veneer of bullshit. Which is good news, yo.

 
At 2:27 PM, Blogger Me said...

Schadenfreude is one of my favorite words. That just makes this guys writing even better.

 

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